Managing Your Heart at Work

In this teaching, John explains why managing your inner life is essential for effective leadership, influence, and fruitfulness in the workplace and everyday life. Drawing from Matthew 5–7, he unpacks practical, biblical tools for stewarding emotions, practicing forgiveness, growing in holiness, and strengthening spiritual disciplines—showing how inner transformation leads to lasting kingdom impact.Timestamps0:03 – Why Managing Your Heart Comes Before Managing LifeJohn introduces the core idea: effectiveness in leadership, family, and work starts with stewarding what’s happening inside your heart.1:06 – Matthew 5–7: Christianity 101 and the Inner LifeA deeper look at the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus’ foundational teaching on heart transformation.2:06 – Weeding, Feeding, and Exhorting the HeartBreaking down Jesus’ three-part framework for heart management: removing what’s unhealthy, strengthening what’s good, and learning how to live rightly.3:06 – Weeding the Heart: Anger, Immorality, Manipulation, and RetaliationWhy Jesus addresses root issues beneath outward behavior—and how hardness damages the soul.6:27 – Feeding the Heart: Forgiveness, Kindness, Prayer, Fasting, and GenerosityThe five practices that strengthen the “denial muscle” and form Christlike character.13:28 – Living From a Healthy Heart: Worry, Judgment, Fruit, and Wise BuildingHow trusting God, evaluating fruit, and building wisely positions believers for lasting influence and fruitfulness in the marketplace.